The Thorn Tech Blog

The New York AWS Summit took place on August 14. The Thorn Tech team went to the Big Apple to attend, learn, and have a great time! More than 7,000 cloud-minded people attended the New York event, making it the second largest AWS Summit this year. Over the course of...

Security has been a big hurdle for companies looking to migrate to the cloud, but it shouldn't be anymore. Security will always be a concern when it comes to technology, especially with cloud computing. The thought of important data and key parts of your application...

Artificial intelligence can make your business smarter and more efficient, and cloud computing can make AI easier and cheaper to implement. Artificial intelligence has fascinated mankind for centuries. The concept dates back to Greek myths of golden automatons...

We've just launched SFTP Gateway, a secure, pre-configured, reliable way to push files via SFTP to S3. We are excited to announce the launch of our new product, SFTP Gateway, now available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace! SFTP Gateway is a secure,...

Cloud computing has made disaster recovery better and cheaper. Here's what you need to know about how to integrate the cloud into your disaster recovery plan. A disaster can strike at any time, disrupting the delivery of your software applications to your...

Consider these benefits and risks before you move to a multi-cloud environment. According to the 2016 IDC CloudView survey, 56% of companies who use AWS are also using cloud services from another provider, and an additional 23% of respondents have plans to do so very...

More and more businesses are moving their on-premise IT infrastructure to the cloud to increase agility, cut costs, and reap the many other benefits that cloud computing can provide. If you’ve considered a move to the cloud, you’ve likely spent a lot of time thinking...

Create a serverless Slack chatbot with API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB Slack, a messaging tool with similarities to IRC, basically killed email in our office (for which I am forever grateful). Not only does Slack organize group conversations, but it provides extra...

What is serverless, what serverless frameworks are available, who uses it, and what are its pros and cons? Serverless is an increasingly popular approach to software development that is set to explode in 2017. The serverless movement started with the launch of AWS...

Use Serverless to create a REST API with Node.js and Lambda Lately, I've been turning to AWS Lambda for building server-side logic -- whether for client work, product development, or even personal projects. Lambda is a managed service, so there's no need to patch or...